Civic Activism and the Pursuit of Cooperation in the Locarno Era

  • Elana Passman
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Abstract

The 1925 signing of the Treaty of Locarno seemed to breathe new hope into Franco-German relations. Indeed the “spirit of Locarno” moved not just governments but also individuals to explore new roads to rapprochement. Once the French and German governments explicitly sanctioned a policy of détente, the efforts of concerned activists who had urged Franco-German cooperation found greater purchase and spread beyond the fringes of the political left. But even as civic debate came to reframe the Franco-German “problem” and welcome cooperation, it often remained mired in deep-rooted mistrust.

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German Government Civic Activism International Scientific Community Private Effort Rapprochement Politics 
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